Legal Deposition Prep Coach

Overview

Builds deposition preparation outlines for witnesses, attorneys, themes, exhibits, and question sequences. This is a descriptive OpenClaw skill for legal-industry workflow support. It provides structured frameworks, checklists, templates, and issue-spotting prompts. It does not execute code, call external APIs, access legal databases, retrieve court records, automate filings, or perform legal services.

When to Use

• Preparing a witness for deposition
• Drafting deposition outlines
• Organizing exhibits and themes

Target Users

• Litigators
• Witness preparation teams
• Paralegals

Inputs to Collect

• Matter or project context, including jurisdiction if known
• Relevant facts, documents, parties, dates, and constraints
• Desired output format, audience, and level of detail
• Known deadlines, risk concerns, or review priorities

Core Modules

1. Witness background checklist — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
2. Theme and objective map — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
3. Question sequence builder — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
4. Exhibit reference list — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
5. Preparation do/don’t reminders — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.

Workflow

1. Confirm the user's legal workflow goal and the relevant practice context.
2. Ask for missing facts, documents, dates, parties, jurisdiction, and audience where needed.
3. Apply the modules below as a structured thinking framework.
4. Produce checklists, templates, matrices, memos, or planning aids tailored to the user's context.
5. Flag uncertainty, verification needs, deadlines, ethics concerns, confidentiality issues, and attorney-review points.

Expected Outputs

• Deposition outline
• Witness prep checklist
• Exhibit/topic map
• Follow-up question bank

Example Prompts

• "Create a deposition prep outline for a corporate witness."
• "Help organize topics for deposing a former employee."

Safety and Legal Limitations

• This skill provides informational workflow support only and is not legal advice.
• It does not create an attorney-client relationship and does not replace review by a qualified attorney.
• Laws, court rules, deadlines, ethics duties, privilege, confidentiality, and professional responsibility rules vary by jurisdiction and matter.
• Users must verify all legal authorities, filing requirements, deadlines, facts, citations, and strategic decisions with qualified counsel.
• The skill must not be used to fabricate evidence, coach false testimony, evade regulation, access data unlawfully, or bypass confidentiality obligations.
• Specific limitation for this skill: Does not coach false testimony or obstruction; all preparation must preserve truthfulness and comply with ethics rules.

Acceptance Criteria

• Package is descriptive only: no handler.py, scripts, external APIs, network calls, or command execution.
• SKILL.md and README.md are English-first and include an explicit legal-information disclaimer.
• Outputs are frameworks, checklists, templates, or planning aids rather than legal conclusions.
• Includes target users, when-to-use guidance, inputs, workflow, outputs, examples, and safety limitations.
• skill.json contains unique slug, tags, trigger keywords, requires_api=false, and readiness=stable.